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PLAYLIST UPDATE (September 28 - October 4, 2019) FOR THE FORUM GATEWAY ON FACEBOOK
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For quick access to the Forum’s featured English grammar refreshers and general interest stories, simply click their indicated web links below:
1. Getting to Know English Better: “The many senses of ‘while’ elude not just a few” (October 3, 2019) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=8057.0)
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2. Definitely Oldies But Still Goodies: “70 English idiomatic expressions sometimes bungled by Pinoys” (October 3, 2019) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=721.0)
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3. The Grammar of Writing About Things Told To Us: “A full-dress review of reported direct or indirect speech” (October 3, 2019) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=7133.0)
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4. You Asked Me This Question: “Slogans are meant to ambush the mind into acquiescence” (October 4, 2019) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=7708.0)
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5. Language Humor At Its Finest Retrospective: “35 zany quotes and sayings” (October 4, 2019) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=6209.0)
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6. Getting To Know English Better: “How to reduce adjective clauses to adjective phrases – 2” (October 4, 2019) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=7709.0)
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7. Readings in Language Retrospective: “Reverse-engineering the human brain to make ourselves smarter” (October 4, 2019) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=5128.0)
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8. My Thoughts Exactly Retrospective: “Humor from U.S.-based Fred Natividad: ‘Medjugorie, Here They Come!’” (October 2, 2019) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=716.0)
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9. You Asked Me This Question: “When to use the bare infinitive and the full infinitive” (October 2, 2019) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=7705.0)
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10. You Asked Me This Question Retrospective: “How ‘mine’ functions as pronoun, adjective, or determiner” (October 2, 2019) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=7704.0)
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11. Essays by Jose Carillo Retrospective: “The great gobbledygook-generating machine” (October 2, 2019) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=7131.0)
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12. Readings in Language Retrospective: “Inoculating ourselves against all those journalistic nonsense” (October 1, 2019) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=368.0)
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13. Quick Review of English Grammar Basics: “Excessive negation and its dangers” (October 1, 2019) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=7129.0)
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14. Students’ Sounding Board Retrospective: “An assortment of bewildering questions about English usage” (September 30, 2019) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=1884.0)
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15. Language Humor at its Finest: “34 Corollaries of Murphy’s Law in the World of Work” (September 30, 2019) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=2604.0)
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16. You Asked Me This Question Retrospective: “The correct sequence of tenses for complex sentences” (September 30, 2019) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=7354.0)
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17. Getting to Know the English Basics Better: “The need for consistency in point of view” (September 30, 2019) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=7703.0)
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18. Essays by Jose Carillo Retrospective: “The State of Our English” (September 29, 2019) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=48.0)
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19. Readings in Language: “Something exceptionally strange to know about William Blake” (September 29, 2019) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=8056.0)
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20. My Media English Watch Retrospective: “The perils of misusing literary allusions in feature stories” (September 29, 2019) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=1519.0)
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21. Use and Misuse Retrospective: “Why are legal documents not in plain and simple English” (September 29, 2019) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=6871.0)
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22. My Thoughts Exactly Retrospective: Isabel Escoda’s “Whatever Became of ‘Fine!’, ‘You’re Welcome!’, and ‘Dead’?” (September 28, 2019) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=2366.0)
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23. You Asked Me This Question Retrospective: “How a ‘lawful wedded wife’ differs from a ‘lawfully wedded wife’” (September 28, 2019) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=6297.0)
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24. The Forum Lounge: “New worm species found to have 3—not just two—different sexes” (September 28, 2019) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=8054.0)
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25. Time Out From English Grammar Retrospective: “A Taste of Vintage Mencken” (September 28, 2019) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=52.0)
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